i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

a full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!

Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

common sense is the enemy of romance

The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe.

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

Tone can be as important as text.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

You can't make me love you.

Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.

I can't wait to ride my electric scooter, walk my dog, watch TV, be bored … and I'm gonna put [my Oscar] in my hand and kiss it every night before I go to sleep.

Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.